Greenish-blue triphenylmethane dye.



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MAX WEILER, OF ELBERFELD, GERMANY, ASSI GNOR TO FARBENFABRIKEN VORM. FRIEDR. BAYER &: 00., OF ELBERFELD, GERMANY, A CORPORATION OF GERMANY.

GREENISH-BLUE TRIPHENYLMETHANE DYE.

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To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, MAX VVEILER, doctor of philosophy, chemist,.a citizen of the German Empire, residing at Elberfeld, Germany, have invented new and useful linprovelnents in Greenisl1-Blue Triphenylmethane Dye, of which thefollowing is a specification.

I have found that the pentachlorobenzaldehyde can be advantageously used to produce a new valuable mordant dyestufl' of the triaryl-n'iethane series. The process for its manufacture consists in condensing the pentachlorobenzaldehyde with ortho-cresotinic acid to a leuco compound Which is con verted by oxidation into a d'yestulf capable of being chromed after dyeing furnishing shades fast to alkali, milling and potting.

lirorder to illustrate the new process more fully the following example is given, the parts being by weight :-2O parts of pentachlorobenzaldohyde are stirred at 3050 C. together with 25 parts of ortho-cresotinic acid and 200 parts 0f sulfuric acid ((36 B6.) to which 80 parts of glacial acetic acid has been added until the cresotinic acid has disappeared. By adding water to the solution the colorless leuco acid is obtained which is freed from unchanged aldehyde by dissolving it in soda. It is easily soluble in alcohol or acetone and gives in this'solvent with i'erric chlorid and also with bichromatc and sulfuric acid an intense blue color. For oxidation the leuco acid is stirred together with eight times its quantity of sulfuric acid (90-96 per cent.) and one molecule of nitrite at 50 C. until the quantity of Specification of Letters Patent. Patented J uly' 18, 1911 Application filed April 11, A911. Serial No. 620,426. I

The herein described new dyestufi' having probably the formula which is after being dried and pulverized a brown yellow powder insoluble in water, being soluble in caustic soda lye with a blue color; dyeing wool red-brown shades which on chroniing turn into a greenish-blue, substantially as described.

ln'testinlony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence-of two subscribing witnesses.

MAX WEILER. LL. s.:'| Witnesses:

ALFRED llnNKuL, E. Voss. 

